Charleston

Just days after the Charleston killings in June, Bill Haslam, Tennessee’s Republican governor, said he supported removing a bust of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest from the state Capitol. These memorials are increasingly being seen as instruments of racial terror and now the Memphis City Council has voted to begin the process of removing the towering statue of Forrest from a city park. The full story of his career in the Civil War and after is found in “The Confederacy’s Greatest Cavalryman: Nathan Bedford Forrest” by Brian Steel Wills.